Bia, a daughter of Pallas by Styx. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 2.
Biānor, a son of Tiberius and Manto the daughter of Tiresias, who received the surname of Ocnus, and reigned over Etruria. He built a town which he called Mantua, after his mother’s name. His tomb was seen in the age of Virgil on the road between Mantua and Andes. Virgil, Eclogues, poem 9, li. 60.——A Trojan chief killed by Agamemnon. Homer, Iliad, bk. 11, li. 92.——A centaur killed by Theseus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 342.
Bias, son of Amythaon and Idomene, was king of Argos, and brother to the famous soothsayer Melampus. He fell in love with Perone, daughter of Neleus king of Pylos; but the father refused to give his daughter in marriage before he received the oxen of Iphiclus. Melampus, at his brother’s request, went to seize the oxen, and was caught in the act. He, however, in one year after received his liberty from Iphiclus who presented him with his oxen as a reward for his great services. Bias received the oxen from his brother, and obliged Neleus to give him his daughter in marriage. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 11.—Pausanias, bk. 2, chs. 6 & 18; bk. 4, ch. 34.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9.——A Grecian prince, who went to the Trojan war. Homer, Iliad, bk. 4, lis. 13 & 20.——A river of Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 34.——One of the seven wise men of Greece, son of Teutamidas, born at Priene, which he long saved from ruin. He flourished B.C. 566, and died in the arms of his grandson, who begged a favour of him for one of his friends. Diogenes Laërtius, bk. 1.—Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 7, ch. 2.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 24.
Bibācŭlus Marcus Furius, a Latin poet in the age of Cicero. He composed annals in iambic verses, and wrote epigrams full of wit and humour, and other poems now lost. Horace, bk. 2, satire 5, li. 41.—Quintilian, bk. 10.——A pretor, &c. Valerius Maximus, bk. 1, ch. 1.
Biblia and Billia, a Roman lady famous for her chastity. She married Duillius.
Biblis, a woman who became enamoured of her brother Caunus, and was changed into a fountain near Miletus. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 662.
Biblina, a country of Thrace.
Biblus, a city of Phœnicia. Curtius, bk. 4.
Bibracte, a large town of the Ædui in Gaul, where Cæsar often wintered. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 7, ch. 55, &c.
Bibŭlus, a son of Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus by Portia, Cato’s daughter. He was Cæsar’s colleague in the consulship, but of no consequence in the state, according to this distich mentioned by Suetonius, Julius Cæsar, ch. 20: